A r t i c l e s

GÁLIK, Marián: The Bible and Chinese Literature as Seen from the Angle of Intercultural Communication, p. 113
CELNAROVÁ, Xénia: The Interliterary Community of Turkic Nations within the Context of the European Culture, p. 134
KRUPA, Viktor: Anatomical Metaphor and its Role in Vocabulary Extension in Indonesian and Maori, p. 147
MODINI, Paul: A Theory of Evolution of the Mandarin Focus Construction 'shì...de', p. 154
KOPCAN, Vojtech: Der osmanische Krieg gegen die Habsburger 1663-64 (im Hinblick auf die Slowakei), p. 169
VODERADSKÝ, Ján: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe: South African Perceptions and Reactions, p. 190

R e v i e w A r t i c l e s

CARNOGURSKÁ, Marina: Forty Years of Sinology in Slovakia, p. 209

ABSTRACTS

THE BIBLE AND CHINESE LITERATURE AS SEEN FROM THE ANGLE OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Marián Gálik,
Bratislava

This study concentrates upon the reception of The Bible in China from the end of the sixteenth century up to the present, showing the many undesirable misunderstandings and distortions in the new milieu.

THE INTERLITERARY COMMUNITY OF TURKIC NATIONS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN CULTURE

Xénia CELNAROVÁ,
Bratislava

The aim of this study is to research the laws governing the interliterary, supranational process. Qualitatively, these laws possess a different character from those deriving from research into the national-literary process. The study considers previous efforts at determining the principles, factors and criteria that have conditioned the origin and development of the interliterary process within Mediaeval Turkic literatures, as well as in their relation to Arabic-Persian literary traditions.

ANATOMICAL METAPHOR AND ITS ROLE IN VOCABULARY EXTENSION IN INDONESIAN AND MAORI

Viktor KRUPA,
Bratislava

Metaphor is examined here form the cognitive point of view and attention is paid chiefly to the role of anthropomorphic model in the metaphorical expansion of vocabulary in Indonesian and Maori. In both languages a preference for the metaphorization of the most salient body parts (eye, head, mouth) has been discovered. Terms for internal organs are as a rule applied only to psychic phenomena.

A THEORY OF EVOLUTION OF THE MANDARIN FOCUS CONSTRUCTION 'SHÌ...DE'

Paul MODINI,
Sydney

Japanese and Mandarin focus constructions are compared and a unified theory of their origin and function proposed. According to this theory, focus constructions came about to indicate that a constituent marked as only part of the rheme (in the Prague School sense, vs. theme) in the non-focus construction was in fact the sole element of the rheme.
The 'shì...de' construction, together with the phenomenon of verb-copying, is seen as an eventual response to a pre-classical standardization of the positions of the different types of adverbials vis-à-vis the verb.
Although there is no evidence that the focus construction existed in the classical language, there is reason to think the homophonous „situational“ (in Chao's description) construction did. It was to the form of this latter construction, which in its classical form has been mistakenly regarded as the „pronoun zhi“ construction, that the eventual focus construction was assimilated.

DER OSMANISCHE KRIEG GEGEN DIE HABSBURGER 1663-64 (IM HINBLICK AUF DIE SLOWAKEI)

Vojtech KOPCAN,
Bratislava

Die Belagerung von Nové Zámky (ung. Érsekújvár, deutsch Neuhäusel) war nicht von langer Dauer, doch im Hinblick auf die fortgeschrittene Jahreszeit und den Mangel an Nahrungs-und Füttermittel war es nötig, daß die leichte Reiterei, vor allem die Krimtataren, dies sicherstellten. Im Verlauf von nicht ganz zwei Monaten, haben sie die West- und Mittelslowakei sowie Ostmähren geplündert. Am 25. September 1663 kapitulierte die Besatzung, unter der Bedingung des freien Abzuges. Die kaiserlichen und ungarischen Heere befreiten im Jahre 1664 Neutra, Lewenz und siegten in den Kämpfen bei Žarnovica und Lewenz sowie auch in dem entscheidenden Kampfe am 1. August 1664 bei St. Gotthard-Mogersdorf.

DIE FALL OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE: SOUTH AFRICAN PERCEPTIONS AND REACTIONS

Ján VODERADSKÝ,
Bratislava

The aim of this paper is to sketch and analyse a broad picture and some dynamics of South African reactions to the 1989 blitz revolutions in Eastern Europe, which have often been described as an event of epochal significance, marking the fatal decline of power of world communism. Having been based an carried on the wave of an other progressing revolution, that of technology and communications, the East European upheavals could not but immediately acquire a global dimension and pervade and affect in one way or other developments in different parts of the world.
Research into this topic has been based on the study of a relatively wide range of South African sources such as parliamentary debates, conference papers, articles in various newspapers and professional journals, both English and Afrikaans, as well as on interviews with representatives of some of the main South African political parties and movements.